Martin (2013: 19):
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To be clear, in Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, systems and their features are labelled according to the functions that they distinguish. Because 'first', 'second' and 'third' are not functions, but formal categories, they do not feature in system networks. That is the problem Martin has unnecessarily created by using them.
Clearly, the terms 'first', 'second' and 'third' are not "rather arbitrary" and do not "privilege" the speaker. They merely present the perspective of the person actually producing the text. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 383-4):
The personal pronoun represents the world according to the speaker, in the context of a speech exchange. The basic distinction is into speech roles (I, you) and other roles (he, she, it, they); there is also the generalised pronoun (one). These categories are set out in Figure 6-4.
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